Improvement in seed-planters



J. 1']. WHITE. Corn Planter.

No. 104,088. Patented June 7, 1870.

N.FETEES. PHVOTO-LITHDGRAPNER. WASHINGTON, o. c,

- To all whom it may concern dint-ted, sate Jonas, WHITE. or

CLINTON, ILLINOIS.

Lam Patent. No. 104,o88,'dated June 7, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT m SEED-PLAN'I'ERS.

I The Schedule referred toin these'llettcra Patent and making of the lame.

Be it known that 1, JOHN E. WHITE, of Clinton, in the county of De Witt,'and in theState of Illinois,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Seed- Planters and I do. hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the annexed drawing making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved corn-planter. Figure 2 is a side elevation, one of the hoppers and dropping-mechanism being shown in section.

Figure 3 is a section through one of the seed-boxes in thedirectionof the reciprocating seed-slide.

. The same letters are used in all the figures to desiguate identical part-s.

My invention relates to a machine for planting corn or other seed, planted in rows and hills; and

My improvement consistsin the construction, combination, and arrangement of some of the parts constituting such a machine, as will be more specifically set forth in the'following specification and claim.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation,

A, in the drawing, represents the main frame 'of the planter, made of longitudinal and transverse beams firmly bolted together and mounted uponwheels, B, in the ordinary manner.

' Upon this portion of the frame aseat, a-, is arranged for the driver to sit upon. a

O is another frame, hung to the front end of the main frame by means of a shaft or bolt, G, upon which the seed-boxes and dropping-mechanism are arranged, it being provided with a seat, 0," upon which the'personwho is to operate the seed-slides sits.

A portion of this frame is made to overhangthe main frame, extending back to just in front of the drivers seat, as shown at O .in figs. 2 and 1, it being for the purpose of vibrating the frame 0 and'mechanism it' supports on the axis 0, in order to raise the colters above, or lower them into the ground.

Hooks, c, are secured in the rear end of the portion (3 of the frame G to be attached to chains, a, fastened on the axle of the machine, so that, said frame may be'stat-ioned at any desired point.

Upon a cross-beam of the frame 0 the seed-boxes D D are placed, one in front, or nearly so, of each wheel.

Between the bottoms of such boxes and the'crossbeamsupporting them, a plate of wood or metal, D, is placed, with a central aperture, directly above the seed-spout. I

A groove or recess is formed in theupper surface of this plate to receive the seed-slide E, which is constructed with two apertures, e e, the size of which can be regulated by aslide and screw in theordinary manner.

, A thin plate of metal of sufficient wid'th. to cover one of the apertures in the seed-slide is placed over the latter in the bottoms-of the seed-boxes, as shown at d, it being placed directly over the aperture in the plate D, so that as one of the seed-slide apertures is brought opposite the holein said plate, it will discharge the seed, but the plate d will not permit any seed to escape into the spout directly from the hopper or box. I

The seed-slides-operate' in the same horizontal line, and are. connected by a connecting-bar or red, E, which is reciprocated by the levers E in the hands of the operator, said levers being pivoted in blocks, E,

upon a cross-bar of the frame'O, as: shown in figs. 1

and 3. a

E F are the seed-tubes, through which the seed is discharged intoa furrow made by suitable colters, F, arranged uponitheir lower-front ends, as clearly shown in fig. 2.

Byreference to the last-mentioned figure, it will be seen that the passages in the seed-tubes are not straight down, but are carried to the rear for some distance, so that the straight vertical portionmay be in rear of the seed-boxes, and, this portion being left open on top,,be open to torat all times.

G isa vibrating flat bar of thin metal, sheet steel being preferred, pivoted in the straight portion of the seed-tube passage, and at its upper end attached to a stud secured to the seed-slide. 'Thelower end extends to near the bottom of the said tube, and the bar is in this portion forked, as shown in dotted lines in fig. 3, and made sufiiciently' wide to stretch across the pas-v sage,which, in this part at least, should be made square. As the seed-slides are reciprocated, these bars are vibrated, so that the seed discharging is directed into that side of. the tube which is closed by one of the flaps of the bar G, to he kept therein until the bar is vibrated in the opposite direction, when the seed already in the bottom of the seed-tube falls into the hill at the same'time that another cupful is deposited in the opposite side of such tube, to be held therein by the other flap of the vibrating-bar until the next hill 1 is reached.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The vibrating-bars G,'s eed-tubes F, hoppers D, seed slides E, connecting-rod E, levers E, and hinged frame 0, all combined, arranged, and operating substantially as described. a

The above specification signed by me this 27th day of December, 1869.

Y JOHN E. WHITE. Witnesses: JOSEPH J. KELLY,

J oils WARNER.

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